”That’s just how parents are,” Henry explained wisely as he ate the cheese off the top of his slice and wiped his greasy hand on his jeans. “They like to talk about how they used to do things or about how they plan to do things someday, but parents aren’t very good at right now.” — Any Which Wall

The deal with cooking the beans... I bring them to a boil in a stainless steel pot and then put them in the oven, pot and all. I also recently received a ceramic bean pot meant for cooking beans in the oven (like baked beans) so I meant to convey that you can't boil beans in a ceramic pot. You'd want to boil them in a metal pot and then transfer them to a ceramic pot if you have one of those.